False alarm. Somehow my blog was falsely flagged as a spam blog. This might be the same thing that happened to Ann?

Blogger.com wanted my cell phone number in order to restore my blog. Against my better judgement, I gave it to them. They sent me a text message containing a verification code and my blog was immediately restored (archives and all).

Insurmountable in human history, as we live to decide (all of us in Chief if we are to accord our ideals epistoligical optimism notwithstanding the last three years) it, are our ideals, generously bequeated by our betters.

Not the idea or concept, but the application of government by, of, and for me. And them. Our countrymen.

Standing on those giants shoulders, I, laugh if you will, have the ultimate confidence musterable when I think of Reagan's, Lincolns, and Washingting's AMERICA.

Two hours of morel hunting today, finding:1) baby fawn that scampered away2) a Meadow Frog3) Lots of bones of dead whitetails which the kids somehow talked me into bringing home in a bag4) Two small grey morels that were past their prime but were still great fun to find

"OK, Prof. Althouse. Nice domain. In the thread asking commenters to guess, you were really just fishing for ideas, weren't you?!"

No. Look back at that thread and you'll see that people saw it was already purchased. My son John thought of it. But Peter thought of it independently... With the "edgy" prompt.

I had thought of that idea of using the .us country code: altho.us. but I didn't make the jump to using a country other than my own. Theres no need to put the clunky .com at the end of everything I think the new era of urls is getting creative with the country codes.

I'm so glad Althouse.com and annalthouse.com weren't available so it pushed us into the country code zone and we found that.

Lem, 0-0 through 7.5. With 2 outs in the 8th, Crawford walks and Saltalamacchia doubles him in. Papelbon gives up a leadoff double to VMart in the 9th, he's bunted to 3d, then Papelbon strikes out two for the save. Great game.

But there are semantic concerns, especially when you do this with something other than .tv. The semantic meaning will be that your blog is a Swedish one, in Swedish. That's how search engines will see it, and it may reflect on how they rank it (e.g. higher in Sweden, lower elsewhere). A "do you want to translate this page?" might also appear in some browsers (e.g. Google Chrome).

Pogo that is great news. Like you my wife means everything to me. She is your partner, your friend, you sounding board, the other person in the foxhole when there's incoming. To see her hurting tears at your heart. You can only be strong for her and let her know how much you love her and honor her and need her to get better. Love like yours shames the Arnolds and Spitzers and Edwards of this world and shows us that they are beneath our contempt and should not enter into our thoughts as other than comedy.

I will continue to pray for her and for you and your family and hope that she will walk out of the hospital with you hand and hand as you go on with your journey together.

Yup, May 21st. The crazy Christians even have a sponsored link on Google that leads to this very busy webpage. It's all very Heaven's Gate-ish. I wonder if we'll see suicides?

Melancholia opens in Denmark on May 26th. So the world might end five days after it didn't. The trailer looks great, tho'. I was sold once I heard the unforgettable voice of John Hurt.

As for Lars Von Trier... ugh... somebody should just kidnap him and force him on a plane to America, and then take him on a very friendly tour. That could be a plot for a movie itself.

Speaking of things Danish... This evening I've been watching some of the original Danish TV series The Killing, which apparently has been recently remade (to great acclaim!) by AMC. The original series (available with English subtitles) is spectacular... so spectacular, in fact, that I hesitate to see the AMC version because I'm afraid it'll be a let-down.

I don't trust my fellow Americans anymore after the way MTV mauled the exceptional British teen series Skins earlier this year.

You can look up the country codes in Wikipedia and see what the restrictions might be. As for Germany, it is available and frequently used in the creative fashion:

"In many of the Romance languages, e.g., Spanish, French, Romanian and Portuguese, "de" expresses the genitive of a noun (like "of" in English). This is exploited in domain registrations under the German TLD for romance language webhosts that offer customized sites, like elforo.de (theforum.of), cleverly encoding the site name into the URL path, such as elforo.de/wikipedia, meaning theforum.of/wikipedia. "de" is also a common romanization of the Japanese word for "by", so there is potential for sites to exploit this ("ryoko.de/bus" being travel by bus), but this has not been widely adopted."